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Article: Two more hits for the odd couple; BARKLEY CARDS: The eccentric pop duo Danger Mouse, left, and Cee-Lo.
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 16, 2008
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Byline: Tim de Lisle
Gnarls Barkley's second album is called The Odd Couple, which could bethe name of almost any album by any duo. In rock, unless they're siblings, duosare usually odd couples: Simon and Garfunkel, Lennox and Stewart, Tennant andLowe, Jack and Meg White. Some, like Sparks, are siblings and still wildlymismatched.
The men behind Gnarls Barkley, Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo fit neatly into thistradition, while also evoking odd couples from further afield, such as Laureland Hardy. Danger Mouse is a skinny boffin with an Afro, Cee-Lo a portly partyanimal with a gleaming pate.
The combination can be devastating, as they showed with their ...